Senior Member
Hi,
downloaded, unrarred and installed
ncurses by wpte
run
[admin@oo dialog]$ ./configure --prefix=/opt
.................
...
checking if we have identified curses headers... none
configure: error: No curses header-files found
Any idea how to get Linux dialog finally compiled ?
Darius
Student Computer Engineer
Originally Posted by darius
are you sure you placed the files in the correct folder?
I get this output:
you can also specify the right dir with:checking if we have identified curses headers... curses.h
checking for curses.h... yes
./configure --with-curses-dir=[the dir you installed ncruses in]
Senior Member
Ok.
So tell me the right installation procedure and how to start with,
step by step.
Where download ncurses-5.7.rar to
and what commands, switches should I use with
unrar ... ncurses-5.7.rar
Mayby I should use an installer for uncurses to chmod for directories ?
Darius
Student Computer Engineer
well... I expect people to look inside an archive before just extracting it anywhere
the archive contains the folder opt, referring as your disk mounted as opt....
so if you use command line (and it works), you should first cd to home:
now you can unrar it I guess, if it works the same way as tar in commandline.cd /
you can also extract it simply by winrar to a samba share of your /opt
Senior Member
Ok.well... I expect people to look inside an archive before just extracting it anywhere
the archive contains the folder opt, referring as your disk mounted as opt....
so if you use command line (and it works), you should first cd to home:
now you can unrar it I guess, if it works the same way as tar in commandline.
you can also extract it simply by winrar to a samba share of your /opt
I downloaded your .tar twice.
First into root directory and started to unrar it.
(/opt as /is read only-system)
The process was very slow so I terminated it (/opt is low on memory)
and get it untarred into 3rd partition disc0_3
than copied /opt directory tree into /opt on the 2nd partition (home).
I was surprised to see all of archive files chmodded to 644
as binaries should get 755 mode.
Slow extracting of archives on /opt
worked really fast on /tmp/mnt
seting 644 mode to every extracted file.
Did your archive come with file attributes some set to 644 and some to 755 ?
Or should I set attributes manually ?
Darius
Student Computer Engineer
If you unrar them via samba, the attributes should be allright.
note that winrar doesnt use any attributes!
so if you unrar it via command line you probably should.
Senior Member
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rar doesn't preserve attributes (from the net).
set 755 to /opt/bin unrarred
what should I next ?
did you provide install script, as you keep requsting me to install
your rarred ncurses
and directory tree has no special install script
or /opt/ncurses directory
tried to download and unpack ncurses.ipkg
I installed from ipkg
unfortunately can't get it downloaded and saved to disk with wget or lynx .
(from the net)
tar can do the job to preserve file/directories attributes
The only install I can do is to copy your unrarred ncurses /opt tree
into root /opt tree
And finally, what is your suggestion for option directory to run
as I don't have specific directory for your unrarred and copied ncurses
so run ./configure as below
[admin@oo dialog]$ ./configure --prefix=/opt
checking if you want to build libraries with libtool... no
checking for extra include directories... no
checking if we have identified curses headers... none
configure: error: No curses header-files found
[admin@oo dialog]$
And the last but not least
Is your ncurses package not in conflict with ipkg ncurses package I have already installed ?
as I don't see it named as ncurses-devel
Darius
Senior Member
Hi,
I got it from cache
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Ok.
I native downloaded and unrarred your archives.
Linux file system only no samba.
(from the net)
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Tar is an archiver that collects all files and attributes (important on Linux; not so very much on Windows) into one stream.
Obviously, you didn't read that rar archives do not preserve file attributes and permissions.
Re: D2X-XL posted by Anonymous @ 71.229.81.55 on Nov 17 2006 7:58 AM
Another issue with using rar and zip is that they don't allow for the enhanced linux file attributes, such as file ownership and so forth; making a backup of your system using rar will NOT give you a real "backup", but a disaster.
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Ok.
So I chmod 755 bin directory in untarred /opt
than copied into root /opt
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BTW
ncurses is ipkg package I installed earlier from ipkg list
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ncurses - 5.7-1 - NCurses libraries
ncursesw - 5.7-1 - NCurses libraries with wide char support.
Is using ncurses developed by you in /opt not in conflict with the ncurses from ipkg ?
logfile
...
...
checking if we have identified curses headers... none
configure: error: No curses header-files found
[admin@oo dialog]$
So what attributes should I set for each of directories in your ncurses
(unrarred package).
/bin set to 755
is it ok
as I run compilation as admin ?
And what place is right for installation of ncurses, you have mentioned earlier,
"
you can also specify the right dir with:
./configure --with-curses-dir=[the dir you installed ncruses in]
"
I set ./configure --prefix=/opt
as your ncurses comes as /opt directory tree
so what is your suggestion
as you keep insisting on me to install unrarred ncurses.
Did you provide install script ?
As unrarred ncurses directory tree has not
/opt/ncurses directory
already created by me to native compile
ncurses.c program.
Tried to download and untar ncurses as ipk package to see
file /directory attributes
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op.../cross/stable/
but can't get wget or http lynx to download and save it to disk.
Darius
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